"No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone
feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's
been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded
spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and
tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to
approach him as a friend. You need courage for that." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos." (Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)